Known in Irish as Lios Tuair Léith, and locally as Listoorlea, it is a univallate rath, meaning it has a single enclosing bank rather than the multiple concentric rings that mark more elaborate examples. What makes it quietly compelling is not complexity but orientation: the interior opens towards views of Macgillycuddy's Reeks to the south and east, the same landscape that would have framed the daily life of whoever settled here, probably somewhere between the fifth and twelfth centuries.

The enclosing bank is built of earth and stone, and measures roughly 30.5 metres across its interior on the north to south axis, and 28.5 metres east to west. At its best-preserved point on the northeast, the bank still stands to an external height of two metres, tapering elsewhere to an average of around 1.75 metres, with a basal width of approximately 1.65 metres. It drops about 0.6 metres down to the raised interior, a typical arrangement in rath construction, where the bank and a surrounding fosse, or ditch, worked together to define and protect the enclosed space. Here, faint traces of that outer fosse survive on the northern to northeastern arc, running about 1.8 metres wide. The southeastern sector of the bank has been largely levelled, most likely when a nearby road was built, and it is in that same flattened stretch that the original entrance probably once stood. A. O'Sullivan and J. Sheehan, who surveyed the Iveragh Peninsula comprehensively in a 1996 volume published by Cork University Press, recorded the site in that condition, and it has not substantially changed since.

The earthwork is unenclosed and sits in open agricultural land. The best sense of the bank's surviving scale comes from approaching from the north or northeast, where the profile is least disturbed. The views toward the Reeks that the site commands are the same ones its builders would have chosen deliberately, and they remain as unobstructed now as the topography allows.